PSYC 309 Healthy Sexuality Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · BS in Psychology · Psychology, counseling and social work · Updated

PSYC 309 reads Judith and Jack Balswick's Authentic Human Sexuality: An Integrated Christian Approach. These samples move from a relational, Scriptural foundation for sexuality and changing patterns among young adults, through parents as teachers, how marital and sexual satisfaction shape each other and five elements of healthy sexuality, to predicting infidelity and repairing trust, cohabitation before marriage, and a ten-study review of sexual communication with lessons for counseling.

CoursePSYC 309 Healthy Sexuality (PSYC309)
Credit hours3
ProgramBS in Psychology
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work7 of 8
Samples on this site7 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published PSYC 309 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What PSYC 309 covers

Forums fall in Modules/Weeks 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6; each thread of 350 words or more is due Friday and each of two replies of 200 words or more is due Monday, with every post citing course materials or outside research.

The Perspectives on Sexuality Paper in Module/Week 4 runs three to four pages with five outside sources, and the Healthy Sexuality Research Paper in Module/Week 7 runs six to eight pages built on ten current peer-reviewed articles; both need a title page, abstract and references.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes PSYC 309 Healthy Sexuality this way:
This course provides a foundational understanding of healthy sexuality based on psychological foundations and a biblical worldview. Special attention is given to the biological foundations of sexual development, sexual enrichment, challenges, brokenness, and controversial issues surrounding healthy sexuality.

PSYC 309 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1DB Forum 1 (Course Requirements Checklist also due)60Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2DB Forum 2 (Exam 1 also due)60Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3DB Forum 3 (Exam 2 also due)60Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4Perspectives on Sexuality Paper100Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5DB Forum 4 (Exam 3 also due)60Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6DB Forum 5 (Exam 4 also due)60Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Healthy Sexuality Research Paper200Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8Exam 5 onlyNo written paper this week

Where PSYC 309 papers lose points

PSYC 309 work loses points when forum replies miss the Monday deadline or their citations, when research on sexuality is reported as proof of causes it cannot show, when papers list rules instead of a perspective, when the research paper's summaries crowd out the comparison and applications, and when language turns graphic or judgmental.

Using a PSYC 309 sample well

The samples cite Balswick and Balswick, Ueda and colleagues, Widman and colleagues, McNulty and colleagues, Grubbs and colleagues, Rosenfeld and Roesler, Fincham and May, Rhoades and colleagues, Mallory and colleagues, Roels and colleagues, Uhlich and colleagues, Leblanc and colleagues, Karimi and colleagues, Delicate and colleagues, Jaderek and Lew-Starowicz and Vasconcelos and colleagues.

PSYC 309 questions, answered

What textbook does PSYC 309 use?

Balswick and Balswick's Authentic Human Sexuality: An Integrated Christian Approach, two chapters per module, alongside presentations and lecture notes.

When are PSYC 309 forum posts due?

Each PSYC 309 thread goes up by Friday night Eastern time and the replies follow by Monday night, except in the last module, when replies also close on Friday.

How many exams are in PSYC 309?

Five open-book, open-notes exams of 40 multiple-choice and true-false questions on the presentations and lecture notes, worth 80 points each.

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